serfagen.
/ˈsəːfɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈsərfɪdʒ/ 1. = serfdom n.
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society > authority > subjection > service > feudal service > serfdom > [noun]
churldomc1386
villainyc1386
bondshipc1440
servage1523
villeinage1531
culvertage1613
serfage1816
serfship1830
serfdom1850
unfreedom1884
1816 R. Southey in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1850) IV. 204 I am now in a manner attached to the soil by a sort of moral and intellectual serfage.
1853 J. MacGregor in G. Stuart tr. J. L. de Lolme Constit. Eng. (new ed.) i. ii. 27 When the English villains were freed from serfage.
1868 J. E. T. Rogers Man. Polit. Econ. ix. 86 Serfage was extinguished, and an influential class of yeomanry..arose.
1884 Manch. Examiner 14 July 6/1 The political serfage of long generations.
1903 Collins in Cambr. Mod. Hist. II. xvii. 601 In Denmark they [the peasants] were obliged to have recourse to the practice of commendation, which ended..in a widespread system of serfage.
2. The body of serfs collectively, the serf-class.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > serf > collectively
serfhood1841
serfage1864
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific ranks of common people > [noun] > serf > collectively
serfhood1841
serfage1864
1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. i. 34 The wretched serfage who were driven into the field.
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